Thank you to the wonderful group of landscape architects who listened to me talk at the Food in the Landscape workshop at Waverton Coal Loader today. The topic for me: ‘The role of bees to our food supply’.To do your bit, please don’t spray pesticides, it just isn’t worth the damage it does – especially Neonicotinoids. Chemicals under the class Neonicotinoid:
Acetamiprid
Clothianidin
Dinotefuran
Imidacloprid
Nitenpyram
Thiocloprid
Thiamethoxam.
The European Union and the USA have banned the use of these chemicals, however they are available on hardware shelves in Australia – so ‘beeware’